1. SIXTH SENSE DEVICE
BY:
Srikanth
Btech 4 year
th
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2. CONTENTS
Introduction
History
Components
Working
Applications
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3. INTRODUCTION
 Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the
physical world around us with digital information and lets us use
natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
 It was developed by Pranav Mistry, a PhD student in the Fluid
Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab.
 SixthSense bridges the gap by bringing intangible, digital
information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact
with this information via natural hand
 SixthSense comprises a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera.
The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile
wearable device
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4. HISTORY
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5. Sixth Sense Device
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6. WHY SIXTH SENSE?
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7. RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
 Augmented reality.
 Gesture recognition.
 Computer vision.
 Radio Frequency Identification.
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8. Augmented reality
Augmented reality is a term
for a live direct or indirect
view of a physical real world
environment whose elements
are augmented by virtual
computer generated imagery.
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9. Gesture recognition
Gesture recognition is a
topic in computer science
and language technology
with the goal of interpreting
human gestures via
mathematical algorithms.
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10. Computer vision
Computer vision is the
science and technology
of machines that see.
It is concerned with the
theory behind artificial
systems that extract
information from images.
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11. RFID
Radio Frequency Identification
is basically an electronic
tagging technology that
allows the detection, tracking
of tags and consequently the
objects that they are affixed to.
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12. COMPONENTS
The hardware components are coupled in a
pendant like mobile wearable device.
Camera
Projector
Mirror
Mobile Component
Colored Markers
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13. Camera
 Captures an object in view and tracks the user’s hand gestures
 It sends the data to smart phone
 It acts as a digital eye, connecting you to the world of digital information
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14. Projector
 The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces and
physical objects to be used as interfaces
 The project itself contains a battery inside, with 3 hours of battery
life.
 A tiny LED projector displays data sent from the smart phone on any
surface in view–object, wall, or person.
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15. Mirror
MIRROR
 The usage of the mirror is significant as the projector dangles pointing
downwards from the neck.
Smart Phone
 A Web-enabled smart phone in the user’s pocket processes the video
data
 Other software searches the Web and interprets the hand gestures
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16. Color Markers
 It is at the tip of the user’s fingers .
 Marking the user’s fingers with red, yellow, green, and blue tape
helps the webcam recognize gestures
 The movements and arrangements of these makers are interpreted
into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected
application interfaces.
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17. HOW IT WORKS?
Send for
processing capture
Send Info
Reflect on
Project image desired surface
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18. Cont…
 The hardware that makes Sixth Sense work is a pendant like mobile
wearable interface
 It has a camera, a mirror and a projector and is connected wirelessly
to a bluetooth smart phone that can slip comfortably into one’s
pocket
 The camera recognizes individuals, images, pictures, gestures one
makes with their hands
 Information is sent to the Smartphone for processing
 The downward-facing projector projects the output image on to the
mirror
 Mirror reflects image on to the desired surface
 Thus, digital information is freed from its confines and placedPage 18
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19. Earlier Explorations
1. Ball Mouse
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20. 2. A pen that can draw
in 3 dimension.
3. A Google map that can
interact with physical
world.
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21. APPLICATIONS
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22. Make a call
You can use the Sixth Sense to project a
keypad onto your hand, then use that virtual
keypad to make a call.
Call up a map
With the map application we can call up
the map of our choice and then use thumbs
and index fingers to navigate the map
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23. Check the time
Draw a circle on your wrist to get
a virtual watch that gives you the
correct time
Create multimedia reading
experiences
Sixth Sense can be programmed to project
related videos onto newspaper articles you
are reading
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24. Drawing application
The drawing application lets the user draw
on any surface by tracking the fingertip
movements of the user’s index finger
Zooming features
The user can zoom in or zoom out using
intuitive hand movements
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25. Get product information
Sixth Sense uses image recognition or
marker technology to recognize products
we pick up, then feeds us information on
those products
Get book information
The system can project Amazon ratings on
that book, as well as reviews and other
relevant information
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26. Get flight updates
The system will recognize your boarding
pass and let you know whether your flight
is on time and if the gate has changed.
Feed information on people
The system will project relevant information
about a person such as what they do, where
they work, and so on.
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27. Take pictures
If you fashion your index fingers
and thumbs into a square
("framing" gesture), the system
will snap a photo.
Zoom Edit Email
After taking the desired number of
photos, we can project them onto
a surface, and use gestures to sort
through the photos, and organize
and resize them.
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28. Tablet Pc by paper
• Using microphone
• Surfing internet
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29. • Watching movie
• Playing motion-sensing
game
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30. An Interesting Work-flow
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31. ADVANTAGES
• Portability Supports multi-touch and multi-user
interaction
• Connectedness between world and information
• Data access directly from machine in real time
• Mind map the idea anywhere
• It is an open source
• Costeffective
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32. Portability
• Portability means that a
deice can be used in
many places—not only at
home and at the office
but also in lecture halls
and libraries
• The portability feature
offers several
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33. Multi-Touch Interaction
• Enables a user to interact
with a system with
more than one finger
at a time.
• capable of accommodating
multiple users
simultaneously.
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34. Mind map
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35. Open source
• People will be able to
make their own
hardware.
• They will be able to
build their own
applications.
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36. CONCLUSION
Sixth Sense recognizes the objects around us, displaying information
automatically and letting us to access it in any way we need
The Sixth Sense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the
usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system
Allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures
The potential of becoming the ultimate "transparent" user interface for accessing
information about everything around us
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37. REFERENCES
http://boingboing.net/2009/11/12/sixth-sense-technolo.html
http://gizmodo.com/5167790/sixth-sense-technology-may-change-how-we-look-
at-the-world-forever
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
http://theviewspaper.net/sixth-sense-technology-will-revolutionize-the-world/
http://www.freshcreation.com/entry/sixth_sense_technology/
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